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First of all know- What was the 1984 anti-Sikh riot?

After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India in 1984, anti-Sikh riots erupted across the country.

June 1984: Terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who captured the Golden Temple, was killed by the Indian Army under Operation Blue Star. Many of his companions were also killed along with Bhindranwale. The PM Indira Gandhi was the approved of this campaign. Many people were hurt over the attack in the Sikh’s largest shrine Golden Temple.

31 October 1984: After Operation Blue Star, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by two of her Sikh bodyguards. After this incident, anti -Sikh riots erupted across the country. It is believed that three thousand to five thousand people died in these riots. More than two thousand people were killed in Delhi alone.

Now after nearly 41 years of this incident, Sajjan Kumar has been sentenced in another case. At the same time, another Congress leader Jagdish Tytler is also facing cases. Apart from this, Congress leaders HKL Bhagat and Kamal Nath have also been accused in cases related to Sikh riots.

What was the role in Sikh riots?

Sajjan Kumar’s name comes in Delhi in provoking riots against Sikhs. Especially in areas like Sultanpuri, Cantt and Palam Colony in Delhi. According to the victims of the riots, on 1 November 1984, while addressing the crowd in Delhi, Sajjan Kumar was heard saying- ‘Our mother killed, kill the chieftains.’

In the cases filed against Sajjan Singh, many witnesses said in their statement that Sajjan Singh had privately identified the Sikhs’ houses and provoked the crowd to attack. There were also allegations that Sajjan Singh’s supporters identified the Sikhs’ houses and business through the voter list in Delhi and sabotaged or set them on fire. Many Sikhs were evacuated from their homes.

Which special incidents have Sajjan Kumar’s name?

• Sajjan Kumar’s name comes in the riots on 31 October 1984. During this time he instigated the crowd in the Delhi Cantt area. This mob carried out arson incident in many houses. Finished after Sajjan Kumar’s abolition, five Sikhs- Kehar Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Raghuvendra Singh, Narendra Pal Singh and Kuldeep Singh were killed by a mob in Rajnagar area of ​​Delhi Cantt.
• Teams finding the facts of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and the People’s Union for Civil Liberty stated in their report that most of the Sikh victims accused the Congress MP of inciting the crowd. Was. Many people later identified this MP as Sajjan Kumar.

How was legal action, in which case the guilty were found?

• Despite many important facts and evidence against Sajjan Kumar, charges could not be framed against him in any case. In 2002, he was acquitted by a lower Delhi court in a case associated with Sikh riots.
• In 2005, the CBI registered a new case against Sajjan Kumar based on the report of GT Nanavati Commission.
• In 2010, the matter was heard in Delhi’s Karkardooma court. Many more including Balwan Khokhar, Mahendra Yadav, Maha Singh were made accused in this case.

• In 2013, the court acquitted Sajjan Kumar. However, five people were convicted and sentenced in the case. There was tremendous anger in the victim side after this incident. A protestor had bounced the shoe towards the judge hearing the case.
• The Delhi High Court raised the case when a victim and witness named Jagdish Kaur filed a case against Sajjan Kumar with the CBI. He was accused of inciting a mob killing five Sikhs. The Sikhs who were killed included Jagdish Kaur’s husband and son. Also, three brothers of Jagesher Singh were involved. Another main witness in this case was Nirpreet Kaur.

• The CBI had said in front of the High Court that eyewitnesses of these incidents had given the name of Sajjan Kumar to the Commission formed for Inquiry. It demanded an inquiry into the allegations against Sajjan Kumar in the massacre. However, the lower court had stopped testifying to eyewitnesses. During the hearing related to the case, another eyewitness witness Cham Kaur told the court that he had seen Sajjan Kumar addressing the crowd in Sultanpuri area.

The three -member Special Investigation Team (SIT), who is investigating, presented Jaswant Singh’s wife as an eyewitness against Sajjan Kumar. However, the lawyers appeared on behalf of Sajjan Kumar demanded to deny his testimony. He claimed that Jaswant Singh’s wife came to light as a witness seven years after the incident. Therefore their testimony cannot be trusted.

It is said that the first FIR in this case was registered in 1991, seven years after the incident. That too based on an affidavit given on 9 September 1985, which the complainant handed over to the commission led by Justice Ranganath Mishra. In 2014, the SIT, formed by the Modi government, intensified cases related to the 1984 Sikh riots and began to investigate the old cases.